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Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution

By Weber, Caroline

The Boys from Dolores

By Patrick Symmes

Spinning the Globe: The Rise, Fall, And Return To Greatness Of The Harle m Globetrotters

By Green, Ben

Minotaur: Sir Arthur Evans and the Archaelogy of the Minoan Myth

By MacGillivray, J.A.

Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Crosses the Line

By Venkatesh, Sudhir

The Keys to Avalon: The True Location of Arthur's Kingdom Revealed

By Blake, Steve, Lloyd, Scott

Heroes: Saviours, Traitors and Supermen

By Hughes-Hallett, Lucy

Last Days in Babylon: The Story of the Jews of Baghdad

By Benjamin, Marina

State of Denial: Bush at War, Part III (Bush at War Part 3)

By Woodward, Bob

The Ordeal of Elizabeth Marsh: A Woman in World History

By Colley, Linda

Einstein's Clocks and Poincare's Maps

By Galison, Peter

Bombay to Bloomsbury: A Biography of the Strachey Family

By Caine, Barbara

J K Galbraith: A 20th Century Life

By Richard Parker

Place of Reeds

By Davies, Caitlin

Red Princess: A Revolutionary Life

By Zinovieff, Sofka

The Osama Bin Laden I Know: An Oral History of Al-Qaeda's Leader

By Bergen, Peter

Caesar: A Life in Western Culture

By Maria Wyke

Negro with a Hat: Marcus Garvey

By Grant, Colin

Hitler and Stalin: The Tyrants and the Second World War

By Rees, Laurence

Heinemann Profiles: Fidel Castro Hardback

By Press, Petra

The Raising of A President: The Mothers and Fathers of Our Nation's Leaders

By Wead, Doug

Harriet Tubman (Graphic Biographies)

By Shone And Anita Ganeri, Rob, Shone

Famous Lives: Martin Luther King (Famous Lives 2)

By Claybourne, Anna

The Young Survivors (inspired by a true story)

By Debra Barnes

Lives: Buddha

By Armstrong, Karen

I Am Gandhi: A Graphic Biography of a Hero (Ordinary People Change the World)

By Meltzer, Brad

Delivering Justice: W.W. Law and the Fight for Civil Rights

By Haskins, Jim, Andrews, Benny

Gervelie's Journey: A Refugee Diary

By Robinson, Anthony, Young, Annemarie, Allan, June

A Child's War: Growing Up on the Home Front 1939-45

By Brown

Young, Gifted and Black: Meet 52 Black Heroes from Past and Present: 1

By Wilson, Jamia, Pippins, Andrea